AnAka
Multimedia Storyteller

Artist’s Statement

AnAkA applies Ancestral root work techniques to their artistic and cultural practices. AnAkA utilizes visual, herbal and sonic preservation as a tool to reclaim severed wisdoms, due to the echoing generational disturbances global colonization has caused. Since 2012, AnAkA has cultivated an ethnographic project entitled AKTIV8: an original archive created with the intention to document and strengthen the heartbeat of the global Indigenous movements, practices and rituals of our current time.

AKTIV8 is an archive, a research center, land preservation project, as well as a creative studio for stories being told that honor sacred wisdom. The intention is to bridge the gap of reverence that exists between the world of the institutional arts and the traditional stories of the very much still existing ancient worlds and cultures of AfroIndigenous peoples. By directing films, creating Angel Music, curating AKTIV8 Portal experiences, and co founding the Black Oregon Land Trust, AnAkA is cultivating a practice centering ancestral honorance and cultural memory.